Friday, July 4, 2008 
In her first children’s book, Grow, Watermelon, Grow, New York-based Iranian designer/illustrator Charlotte Noruzi uses both Western and Iranian themes to tell a story from her childhood. The resulting work is bright, cheerful drawings about a little girl who insists on growing her own watermelon.
Because much of the book relies on an elegant mix of […]
Filed under: ART, BOOKS, DESIGN, INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG IRANIANS
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No disrespect to all the hustlers, but every kid with a computer is starting his own T-shirt line these days, throwing some “ancient Persian” motifs or Persian words on those horrible American Apparel shirts that run really small in the first place and then have the audacity shrink to nothing the first time you wash […]
Nima Taherzadeh may be the only Iranian man in the world who can pull off a ponytail. You can’t see it in the photo above, but he’s got one and he wears it well. When I met with him in Chelsea on a lazy Sunday afternoon a few months ago, he was wearing a black […]
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I might be the least sentimental person on the planet because I throw away all cards unless they’re really cool-looking. My good friend Sam gave me this awesome card for Christmas a couple of weeks ago which I’ve now got up in my room to remind me of home. Sam is an engineer and one […]
Bruce Bahmani recently wrote an Iranian.com review of an Iranian graphic design/art book that looks fascinating, New Visual Culture of Modern Iran, by Reza Abedini. It speaks to a lot of the things that make compelling the calligraphy of Sadegh Tabrizi, which we covered recently: type and calligraphy as a medium of (political? emotional? all […]
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